Slain Former President

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  Family Of Murdered Journalist Gauri Lankesh Joins Rahul Gandhi's Yatra

  Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was on Friday joined by the mother and sister of slain activist Gauri Lankesh during the Bharat Jodo Yatra as he walked with them and said he stood with her and countless others.

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  Burkina Faso to Exhume Body of Slain Ex-Leader Thomas Sankara

  The remains of slain former president Thomas Sankara and 12 of his colleagues who were assassinated during a coup d'etat in 1987 will be exhumed Monday, a judicial source said Sunday.

• Ahead of Zardari visit, Ajmer's khadims remember Benazir

  When Syed Iqbal Kaptan helps Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari perform 'ziyarat' (prayer) at the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the memories of his slain wife and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who had visited the shrine in 2005, will come back to him.

• $11 million bounty on Musharraf's head

  Just days ahead of former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf's planned return to Pakistan from self-exile, a grandson of slain Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti has put a bounty worth Rs 101 million (USD 1,118,370) on the former military ruler's head.

• Nusrat Bhutto, mother of Benazir Bhutto, dies

  Former Pakistani First Lady Nusrat Bhutto, the widow of late President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the mother of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, died in Dubai on Sunday, following a prolonged illness at the age of 82.

• Distraught followers bury slain Afghan ex-leader Burhanuddin Rabbani

  A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a Taliban peace message, and vented at their own government and its efforts to reconcile with the insurgency.

• Zardari calls Manmohan 'father of modern India'

  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is the latest addition to the global fan club of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the economist who opened India's economy in the 1990s and struck a landmark nuclear deal with the US. ",You are the leader of modern India,", Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, told Manmoh...